Improvement in land-rollers



PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM VVIMER, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAND-ROLLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,497, dated July 25,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it kno wn that I, WILLIAM WIMER, of Freeport, in the county ofStephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Land-Roller; and do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereonmaking a part of this speciiication.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a land-roller, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which*Figure l is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a side view of my land-roller.

A represents a straight bar, of suitable dimensions, to which the threeroller-frames, B and C C, are pivoted. The forward frame B is pivotedunder the center of the ba-r A, and has a roller, D, mounted within it,as shown. The two rear frames C C are pivoted to the rear side ofthe barA, and have also each aA roller, D, mounted within it. Around therollers D D are placed bands a a. for marking corn. These bands are tobe screwed onto the roller so that they can be easily removed when it isto be used as a roller alone. Under the rear part of each of the rearframes C C is pivoted a bar, b, which is held by a hook, d, so as toproject beyond the outer end of 'said frame, and to the outer end ofeach bar is attached a cord with weight e for the purpose of making amark the right distance from the mark made by the marker, so as to givea line to drive back by, obviatin g the necessity of set ting stakes,the line made by the weight coming between the team. In the front end ofthe forward frame B is a roller, E, with a clip, f, in which the tongueG is fastened, thus making a iieXible tongue capable of moving up anddown and to either side, enabling the machine to turn very short,thereby obviating the necessity of putting the rollers D D so far apart:as when a reach is used between the front and back rollerframes; also,thereby lessening the draft.

It will be noticed that the bar A has four holes for the attachment ofthe rear roller-frames C C, said frames being represented as pivoted inthe inner holes, bringing them close together, so as to enable them topass through a narrow gate or bars; but when working they should beplaced in the outside holes, thereby widenin g the amount 0f groundrolled.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

The within-described land roller :and cornmarker, consisting of the barA, frames B and C (l, rollers D D with bands a c, bars b b with cordsand weights e e, and the tongue G, all constructed and arranged tooperate substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth:

In testimony that I claim the foregoingIhave hereunto set my hand this27 th day of May, 1871.

VILLIAM VVIMER.

Witnesses:

A. T. GREEN, ALBERT BLIss.

